Fidel Castro

Is San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick playing footsie with controversy?

You can ask him, and people have, or you can draw your own conclusions based on photos circulating online. They show the quarterback in training, wearing socks that depict police as pigs, a derogatory reference used to describe law enforcement.

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